The Garden Bench Blessing
(2025)(The second book in the Porchlight Promises series)
A Story by Lila Montgomery
The Garden Bench Blessing: Porchlight Promises — Book Two
A clean and wholesome small-town romance full of faith, quiet grace, and the tender work of love that blooms where it’s planted.
Charlotte Avery never thought she’d come back to Maplewood. After all, she left this sleepy little town behind years ago, chasing bigger dreams in bigger places. But when life falls apart, there’s only one place left that feels even a little like home — and one place she never thought she’d see again: the garden bench.
Worn and weathered, nestled between climbing roses and lavender in the community garden, the bench once held her hopes and prayers, her whispered dreams and deepest fears. And now, sitting there once more, she can’t help but wonder what God has waiting for her in this quiet corner of the world.
She certainly didn’t expect to find Micah Reynolds still here.
The boy who once made her heart flutter is now a man with steady hands, kind eyes, and a quiet faith that runs deeper than the roots of the flowers he tends. As they work side by side in the garden — weeding, planting, watering, waiting — Charlotte begins to see her own heart slowly coming back to life.
But growth takes time, and staying still has never come easily to her.
As Charlotte wrestles with her fears of staying in a place that feels both too small and too big all at once, she begins to learn what Micah has always known: sometimes it’s in the quiet, unseen work of tending that the greatest blessings bloom.
With each passing day, Charlotte finds herself falling back in love — with the garden, with her town, with the God who never left her side… and perhaps even with the man who never stopped hoping she’d find her way home.
When the first fragile bloom of spring bursts open in the garden bed they’ve worked so hard to revive, Charlotte is faced with a choice: keep running toward what she thought she wanted, or finally stay planted in the place — and with the person — who’s been waiting for her all along.
The Garden Bench Blessing is a heartfelt, faith-filled story of second chances, quiet strength, and the tender promises God plants in even the smallest corners of our lives. Fans of clean and wholesome romance, sweet Southern settings, and uplifting Christian fiction will find themselves at home here, in a story that reminds us all: what we tend with love will always grow.
Come sit a while, feel the breeze, and discover the blessing waiting on the bench that’s been waiting for you.
Genre: Romance
A clean and wholesome small-town romance full of faith, quiet grace, and the tender work of love that blooms where it’s planted.
Charlotte Avery never thought she’d come back to Maplewood. After all, she left this sleepy little town behind years ago, chasing bigger dreams in bigger places. But when life falls apart, there’s only one place left that feels even a little like home — and one place she never thought she’d see again: the garden bench.
Worn and weathered, nestled between climbing roses and lavender in the community garden, the bench once held her hopes and prayers, her whispered dreams and deepest fears. And now, sitting there once more, she can’t help but wonder what God has waiting for her in this quiet corner of the world.
She certainly didn’t expect to find Micah Reynolds still here.
The boy who once made her heart flutter is now a man with steady hands, kind eyes, and a quiet faith that runs deeper than the roots of the flowers he tends. As they work side by side in the garden — weeding, planting, watering, waiting — Charlotte begins to see her own heart slowly coming back to life.
But growth takes time, and staying still has never come easily to her.
As Charlotte wrestles with her fears of staying in a place that feels both too small and too big all at once, she begins to learn what Micah has always known: sometimes it’s in the quiet, unseen work of tending that the greatest blessings bloom.
With each passing day, Charlotte finds herself falling back in love — with the garden, with her town, with the God who never left her side… and perhaps even with the man who never stopped hoping she’d find her way home.
When the first fragile bloom of spring bursts open in the garden bed they’ve worked so hard to revive, Charlotte is faced with a choice: keep running toward what she thought she wanted, or finally stay planted in the place — and with the person — who’s been waiting for her all along.
The Garden Bench Blessing is a heartfelt, faith-filled story of second chances, quiet strength, and the tender promises God plants in even the smallest corners of our lives. Fans of clean and wholesome romance, sweet Southern settings, and uplifting Christian fiction will find themselves at home here, in a story that reminds us all: what we tend with love will always grow.
Come sit a while, feel the breeze, and discover the blessing waiting on the bench that’s been waiting for you.
Genre: Romance
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